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EPA Messes With Perry's Texas
Investor's Business DaIly ^ | December 28, 2010 | IBD Staff

Posted on 12/28/2010 7:21:01 PM PST by raptor22

Regulation: The federal agency declares Texas unfit to regulate its own greenhouse gas emissions and seizes control of the permitting process. Jobs, states' rights and the 2012 presidential election are all involved.

While most of America was unwrapping their Christmas presents, Texas Gov. Rick Perry was staring at a lump of coal the Environmental Protection Agency put in his state's stocking.

Actually, it wasn't a lump of coal — that causes global warming. And Santa won't be coming down any Texas chimney unless he checks with the EPA first.

Two days before Christmas, EPA Regional Administrator Al Armendariz, in a letter to industry, said the agency was taking permitting authority over refineries, power plants and cement facilities in Texas away from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) as of Jan. 2, 2011.

Happy New Year!

The EPA's new rules — continuing an Obama administration pattern of using regulations to circumvent the will of the people in implementing what it cannot get through Congress, such as cap-and-trade — were issued after the U.S. Supreme Court said it had the authority to regulate carbon dioxide, the basis of all life on the planet and what we exhale, as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.

Texas was not amused and is the only state to refuse to implement the rules, filing suit against the EPA.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: agenda; americainperil; bho44; carbondioxide; cleanairact; co2; coal; energy; environment; epa; globalwarming; obama; perry; pollution; rickperry; statesrights; texas; tx
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To: raptor22

Check out the groups he links on his website. What a group:
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Downwinders at Risk

Sierra Club - Lone Star Chapter

Public Citizen (Texas)

Environmental Defense Fund

Friends of the Hudson

WildEarth Guardians


21 posted on 12/28/2010 8:34:41 PM PST by Marty62 (Marty 60)
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To: Pox

“We can complain all we want, but this administration is doing an end run around the legislature and will impose its will upon us and there isn’t anything we can/will do about it but whine as far as I can see. This administration knows it will get away with this sh!t because they understand that there are not enough people in this country ready, willing and able to stand up for what’s right. “

Well, I guess that means that the other side has won, doesn’t it?

If peaceful efforts to restore the balance are fruitless, what happens next?


22 posted on 12/28/2010 8:37:45 PM PST by Grumplestiltskin (I may look new, but it's only deja vu!)
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To: Farnsworth

I hear ya. The whole country went through it two years ago with Juan “Lettuce” McShame.


23 posted on 12/28/2010 8:46:01 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Pox

Just ignore them. Keep issuing permits and don’t recognize their claim that they’ve taken over. The feds will get pissed and stop sending TX federal grants. TX then has all the employers in the state remit monthly or quarterly tax payments directly to them instead of to the feds. They then pre-withhold the federal grant money they’re entitled to and remit the balance to the Beltway Bloodsuckers.


24 posted on 12/28/2010 8:49:57 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Pox

Come on now. Nobama is still running around the dem Congress, they let him beacuse like a lot of today’s parents, “its someone else’s responsibility”. The new much more Conservative GOP House isn’t seated yet, so don’t git your drawers in a wad with WHAT IFs.


25 posted on 12/28/2010 9:04:31 PM PST by dusttoyou ("Progressives" are wee-weeing all over themselves, Foc nobama)
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To: raptor22

Mandates by UNaccountable UNelected bureaucrats? Tactics of Totalitarians.

Defund, dismantle, destroy the EPA.

Life, liberty and the pursuit and destruction of totalitarians.


26 posted on 12/28/2010 9:11:13 PM PST by PGalt
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To: dusttoyou
I wouldn't suggest holding your breath waiting for the Republican led House to come to the rescue.

In case you haven't noticed, it's now well beyond “What If” and into the realm of facts as of next week.

What are YOU prepared to do about it?

27 posted on 12/28/2010 9:16:30 PM PST by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: raptor22

I think we are going to have to see Obammy’s original birth certificate and have a court decide the meaning of “natural born” leading up to the next election. Don’t mess with Texas...or something of that sort, comrade.


28 posted on 12/28/2010 9:22:36 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Marty62
Check out the groups he links on his website. What a group:

............ Downwinders at Risk

Sierra Club - Lone Star Chapter

Public Citizen (Texas)

Environmental Defense Fund

Friends of the Hudson

WildEarth Guardians

Scum, all of 'em.

29 posted on 12/28/2010 9:24:19 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: raptor22; All

Texas could always shut down power plants providing electricity out of state. That will curb their CO2, and cause brown outs all over the west and central USA.

What America needs is a three week blackout. A small reminder of the nice life we live and what it takes to keep providing it.


30 posted on 12/28/2010 9:27:48 PM PST by Martel1971
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To: raptor22

Perry should tell the EPA the same thing he told that reporter.... Adios Mofo.


31 posted on 12/28/2010 10:01:36 PM PST by NeverForgetBataan (To the German Commander: ..........................NUTS !)
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To: tbw2
My choice: Jerry Patterson (TX Land Commissioner)... he's a bad a$$, former Marine fighter pilot, and he loves guns.

Plus he bleeds maroon (a Texas Aggie).

32 posted on 12/28/2010 10:05:12 PM PST by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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To: Pox

I’m not disagreeing with you, but if Abbot fights it and looses then to me that is better than shrugging our shoulders and taking it.

I agree it’s pretty much hopeless since the SCOTUS ruled CO2 is a toxin.


33 posted on 12/28/2010 10:33:32 PM PST by Farnsworth
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To: Pox
And there's basically nothing Texas can do to stop the EPA. The SCOTUS has already sided with the EPA regulating CO2 which basically means that Texas will bend over and take it.

Bull. Texas can simply not enforce the policy for industry in Texas.

What can the EPA do? They have no enforcement arm, no bodies that can enter industry and forceably compel someone to do something.

And if Texas ignores the EPA regulations, that's what it'll take to make it happen.

Sure, the EPA can slap fines onto the state of Texas, but again, if Texas doesn't pay... how will they collect the fine without someone to forceably compel them to?

In the end, the only way the EPA can enforce this should Texas disregard it... is through brute force. The US military would have to go in and physically force the people in question to comply.

And I would point out that Texas has a state military, not militia, not the National Guard... but a functional state military. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_State_Guard

34 posted on 12/29/2010 3:15:12 AM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: tbw2

Amen to that comment. He is nothing but a prim a dona! Guess will see what he is made of now. I think Greg Abbott should be our governor too. Texas SECEDE!!!!


35 posted on 12/29/2010 5:32:08 AM PST by Tru2Texas
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To: Martel1971
I thought the argument was CO2 shouldn't be classified as a pollutant.

And as Perry says, "...action is being taken to protect the Texas economy and the jobs that go with it, as well as defend Texas' freedom to continue our successful environmental strategies free from federal overreach."

As gogogodzilla points out "What can the EPA do? They have no enforcement arm".

I'd be happy with a 2 year harassment campaign, ignoring the EPA, multiple court fights, unofficially causing power outages in their offices, and just slowing their progress using every trick in the book.

36 posted on 12/29/2010 7:18:04 AM PST by WhoisAlanGreenspan?
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To: gogogodzilla

As Stalin said about the Vatican... The EPA, how many divisions do they have?


37 posted on 12/29/2010 7:28:22 AM PST by HenpeckedCon (What pi$$es me off the most is that POS commie will get a State Funeral!)
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To: gogogodzilla

Tough talk, but will Texas actually follow through? I highly doubt it, and at this point there doesn’t seem to be any action outside the judicial front that will be deployed by the state of Texas.

You are posting wishful thinking. In the end, Texas is taking it and they don’t seem to be prepared to do much else other than whine about it, IMO.


38 posted on 12/29/2010 8:41:24 AM PST by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: raptor22

Perry and the incoming Texas Legislature super majority should kick the EPA and Obammie out of Texas - refuse to allow them in the state telling them they have no authority here.


39 posted on 12/29/2010 8:51:16 AM PST by texgal (end no-fault divorce laws return DUE PROCESS & EQUAL PROTECTION to ALL citizens))
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To: raptor22

The EPA and the Obama Administration are begging for $5 or $6 gasoline. This only helps middle eastern oil interests and further destroys the US economy. Texas will do what it can to stave off these attacks from the evil empire but at best it will be a delaying action. O’Bozo and his dark lords need to be removed forthwith.


40 posted on 12/29/2010 9:01:57 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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